Dmitry Gutov writes: Hi Dmitry, > Do you perhaps see a way to change messaging (to the echo area) that > would remove the impression that the connection is still being > established after it has already been established (and we're in the > process of additional Tramp connection initialization)? Tramp messages are grouped in different levels. If we want more fine-grained information, the respective message should have a higher level. Tramp is thrifty with level 3 messages. However, per default Tramp shows only messages up to level 3. A message with a higher level wouldn't be seen by the majority of the users. What if we document the meaning of the "Opening connection ..." message instead? Something like